people like you help us understand. please, help me understand. how to be connect the dots? -- how do we connect the dots? >> you are a man who did precisely that. you would not have the recovery school district, the results he had. you talk about ideas and people. asked about ideas. let me tell you, as important as ideas are, there are billions of ideas out there. in the hands of weak leaders and people who cannot execute, bad ideas and up on the cutting room floor. i have been waiting all day to say this -- people of talk about my friend tony bennett. i think he really was a true leader when it came to education. and did not sit around and check in with all the pollsters and figure out what he needed to do to get reelected. he actually thought of doing something was more important than perpetuating himself in a job. no, i mean it. [applause] i just want to add to your question. i would much rather have it sent to me that i was tony bennett, i did something, and i lost rather than i was most people who were educational